Homosexuality
So where do I draw the line? I'm a professing and acting Christian, my faith is a part of my life. But the problem is that I'm a strong believer of "Hate the sin but Love the sinner", and this puts me into an awkward postion of how to act and what to believe of my gay friends. I can't just outright say "you're a sinner!", this approach tends to anger people and doesn't accomplish anything. Yet if I'm to believe everything in the Bible, they are living in sin. But is it a choice? Talking to one of my friends has led me to believe that homosexuality is not a choice, but rather something inborn. In a way this agrees with scripture from Romans 1:26-27, "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."So if our sinful worldly lifestyle is the cause, what is the 'cure'? Is there such a thing as a 'cure'? I don't know any former homosexuals converted by Christianity so I can't really speak on this part. But are my anger issues any more or less sinful that homosexuality? God views all sins as the same, and I work on my anger but have not been 'cured' of it. Perhaps it is the effort and the acknowledgement of the sin that counts on judgement day, let us hope so, for if it is not then we are all condemned to eternal death. For my part I will continue to love everyone for who they are and let God handle the internal issues.
Korin
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But God making homosexuality a genetic characteristic would mean that He singled out people and MADE them sin. Which would make God Himself have sinned, which would mean that the Bible is for naught.
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